An investigation of the "occurrent arts" through the concepts of the "semblance" and "lived abstraction."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This volume offers a view of the cultural, interpersonal and family consequences of mobile communication across the globe. The contributors analyse the effects of moble communications on all aspects of life, from the relationship between literacy and the textual features of phones, to the use of ringtones as a form of social exchange.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A Bradford book."This reader collects in one easy, accessible place, classic writings on emergence from contemporary philosophy and science. This title includes contributions from the likes of John Searle, Stephen Weinberg, Thomas Schelling, Stephen Wolfram and Jenny Fodor.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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How technology and bureaucracy shape collaborative scientific research projects: an empirical study of multiorganizational collaboration in the physical sciences. Collaboration among organizations is rapidly becoming common in scientific research as globalization and new communication technologies make it possible for researchers from different locations and institutions to work together on com…
"A Bradford book."Philosophers and behavioral scientists discuss what, if anything, of the traditional concept of individual conscious will can survive recent scientific discoveries that human decision-making is distributed across different brain processes and through the social environment.Recent scientific findings about human decision making would seem to threaten the traditional concept of …
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"For much of the twentieth century, philosophy and science went their separate ways. In moral philosophy, fear of the so-called naturalistic fallacy kept moral philosophers from incorporating developments in biology and psychology. Since the 1990s, however, many philosophers have drawn on recent advances in cognitive psychology, brain science, and evolutionary psychology to inform their work. T…
"A Bradford book."A new view of the metaphysics of time, arguing that the traditional tensed-tenseless debate within analytic philosophy should be seen as the first stage in a philosophical investigation of time, and that the next stage belongs to phenomenology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.